GreasyBryan wrote:Flouridating water is an insidious commie plot designed to contaminate our precious bodily fluids!

Never fear, GreasyBryan, thanks to the good folks of the Aluminum Foil Hat Manufacturing Society, the John Birch Society, Whatsamatta U, and the town of Dillon, those dratted commies have been stopped once again! What will Boris and Natasha do now?

"Business! Humankind was my business. The common welfare was my business. Charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the [...] ocean of my business!" -- Dickens

GreasyBryan wrote:Flouridating water is an insidious commie plot designed to contaminate our precious bodily fluids!

Never fear, GreasyBryan, thanks to the good folks of the Aluminum Foil Hat Manufacturing Society, the John Birch Society, Whatsamatta U, and the town of Dillon, those dratted commies have been stopped once again! What will Boris and Natasha do now?

Little do these fools know that there's fluoride in the chemtrails anyway, so taking the fluoride out of the water will have little effect against the illuminati's brain-softening campaign

GreasyBryan wrote:Flouridating water is an insidious commie plot designed to contaminate our precious bodily fluids!

Never fear, GreasyBryan, thanks to the good folks of the Aluminum Foil Hat Manufacturing Society, the John Birch Society, Whatsamatta U, and the town of Dillon, those dratted commies have been stopped once again! What will Boris and Natasha do now?

I don't usually do this, PeterPie (spell out marginally obscure references), but I'll make an exception in this case since none of you guys seemed to "get" this one ... here's a little help:

The communist conspiracy argument declined in influence by the mid-1960s, becoming associated in the public mind with irrational fear and paranoia. It was portrayed in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, in which the character General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear war in the hope of thwarting a communist plot to "sap and impurify" the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people with fluoridated water.

"Winston said they couldn't find anything definitive on the benefits of the mineral, and weighing the equipment cost and space limitations, decided to stop it for the time being."

I guess simply calling up the CDC wasn't in the research plan.

Kinda worrisome on two levels - firstly that the infrastructure is crumbling to the point where basic services like fluoridation lapse, secondly that the people in charge of it think that this is no biggie.

Watch the rates of dental decay and cardiac problems start to rise.

The next President needs to be Scientifically Literate - support a Science Debate for all Candidates

"Never mind the fact that cancer rates were 1 in 12 before we started adding fluoride (when more than 50% of the population smoked), now they are 1 in 2 even though less people smoke. Explain that smart guy."

That's easy. Cancer rates were NEVER 1 in 12. If cancer rates have increased, how do you know it's due to fluoridation of water? It could be toxic chemicals in food imported from China or radiation from computers and cell phones. But, the fact is that cancer rates have not increased, not-so-smart guy.

What food exactly is imported from China? And yes, cancer rates have increased. Do you think fluoride is a vitamin too?

But a report published in June by the Food and Drug Administration makes it clear that imports from China are increasing in the US — and that the FDA is underfunded and under-equipped to deal with it. The unusual “special report,” called Pathway to Global Product Safety and Quality, said imports include:

* 10-15 percent of all food eaten in US households * 60 percent of fruits and vegetables * 80 percent of seafood * 50 percent of medical devices * 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients in medications....China, the GAO report said,is the largest single supplier of seafood imported to the US. But in the past 6 years, the FDA has inspected 41 — 1.5 percent — of the 2,744 Chinese seafood processors selling to the US.